Close Quarters: When Tech Companies and an Indie Film Studio Share a Workspace

Tech’s Best Feature: The Off Switch

It’s Friday evening. The smells of rosemary chicken and freshly-baked challah fill the house. My daughters, 3 and 9, sigh as I gently detach the iPads from their laps. One by one, our screens are powered down. My husband, Ken, is usually the last holdout, in his office, madly scrambling to send out just one last email before the sun sets. Then he unplugs too. We light the candles, and sit down to a sumptuous meal.

How the Internet is Shaping Our “Global Brain”

The South Africans have a beautiful philosophy called Ubuntu, which translates as “I am what I am because of who we all are.” This is a perfect way to think about the way a brain develops, influenced by its surrounding people and experiences.

Get Your Artwork into a Film

We have loved working on our previous films with the Talenthouse community! (In fact our last film where Talenthouse Artists were featured is called Brain Power and was just selected by the US State Department as one of the films to represent America in the 2013-14 American Film Showcase) We are excited to see what you all send in for this one!

Making an “Autoblogography”: Moving From the Third to the First Person

In the 15th century, a Spanish noble woman named Leonor López de Córdoba wrote her “Memorias,” which are considered to be the first autobiography. Since then, writing autobiographies has flourished in literature. Surprisingly, in film, not so much.

Making an ‘Autoblogography’

I never intended to be in my own movie. I have made eight movies and have never made a “personal” film. But I will never forget sitting in the editing room after working on Connected for two years feeling that here I was making a film about what it means to be connected in the 21st century and I was not connecting to the material.

10 Most Romantic Films of All Time

A recent evolutionary study on the large size of the human brain proposes that it did not grow for a greater capacity for knowledge, but for our great need to “connect,” in order to survive as species. The plethora of films that focus on the power of “connection” and the horror of disconnection seem to be a testament of that core desire of humans.

Future of Film: 10 Lessons Learned From Releasing “Connected”

The Parallels Between our Highly Wired Minds and Networks

Can we draw instructive parallels between the development of the human brain and the emergence of the electronic global ‘brain’ of the Internet? New research in neuroscience suggests that, yes, we can.

American Film Showcase: ‘Connected’ in Cape Town

From the moment I found out I was being “deployed” to Cape Town, South Africa to screen my film Connectedfor the US State Department’s American Film Showcase, to the moment I left,it was like watching ascratchy piece of film footage transforming into reality.

Election Day Is a Perfect Time to Think About Our Interdependence

The Fourth of July is about our Declaration of Independence from England 236 years ago, so what if Election Day, on November 6, could be a Declaration of Interdependence: to each other, to our country, to the world and us as a species? While November 6 is our national election, all issues are interdependent and ultimately affect so many things both here and around the world.